Dark Continent
Proper noun
  1. (dated, informal) Africa.
    • 1879, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 March 1879
      De Lesseps, the engineer, has been visiting the Boy of Tunis, and trying to get his consent to the scheme for piercing tho isthmus of Zaber, and opening up communication with the interior of the Dark Continent by water.
    • 1903, The Advertiser Adelaide, 10 November 1903
      Africa is still the Dark Continent, the land of the unknown, the remarkable.
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